COLORADO, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – There is no doubt that this week's epic blizzard, called "bomb blast", left its mark on Colorado.

There was snow and extremely strong gusts of wind, which affected travel on the roads and in the air. These winds brought trees and damaged power lines, leaving thousands in the dark.

Here is an overview of its impact in numbers:

Fatalities

A member of the Colorado State Patrol was hit and killed by a vehicle on Interstate Highway 76 Wednesday morning.

Cap. Daniel Groves, 52, was outside his police car on the highway near Roggen helping a vehicle that had slipped off the road when he had been struck by another driver who had lost control of his car, announced CSP.

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SHELTERS

According to the American Red Cross, 620 people spent the night in shelters from Wednesday to Thursday morning. There were nine shelters open in Colorado. The majority of those stranded remained at the Douglas County Fairgrounds. The agency said on its blog that 353 people remained there. All Red Cross shelters closed at 18:30 Thursday.

The Colorado Emergency Operations Center (EOC) said Thursday on its website that 26 shelters were open and 1,570 people had spent the night there.

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RESCUE

Local first responders have saved more than 1,000 people, according to the EOC. Many of them were rescued from I-25 in Douglas County.

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In addition, the Colorado National Guard saved 93 people and members of the Colorado Fire and Prevention Division saved 11 people.

According to a tweet from the Colorado Fire and Prevention Division, a forest fire logistics team worked for 16 hours and traveled a total distance of 839 miles during rescue operations in the regions. Aurora and Arapahoe County.

CURRENT FAILURES

Wednesday, at the height of the storm, more than 400,000 customers of Xcel Energy were without electricity. Friday morning at 7 am, a little over 25,000 customers were still in the dark.

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AIRPORT IMPACT

On Wednesday, more than 1,400 flights to Denver International Airport were canceled. Around 12:30 pm that afternoon, the airport closed its six runways due to extremely low visibility on the airfield. This is only the fourth time in the history of the airport that all tracks are closed.

Four of the six runways reopened Thursday morning, but the first flight was not flown until shortly after 8 pm It is only around 18 hours. Thursday when the last two tracks were finally opened, according to a tweet from the airport.

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RECORD BREAKING

The National Meteorological Service has not yet officially confirmed that a barometric pressure value of 970.4 mb recorded at Lamar on March 13 was the lowest value ever recorded in the state.

The previous record is 975.8, however, the NWS said it was working with the Colorado Climate Center, the Weather Prediction Center and the National Center for Environmental Information before qualifying it as an official document.

In a tweet, the weather forecast center shared an image that showed that the pressure had hit its lowest point for the month of March.

In Colorado, Wednesday's barometric pressure was like a Category 2 hurricane.

A "bomb cyclone" is defined as a barometric pressure drop greater than 24 millibars in 24 hours.

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